Workshop on Manifolds of Metrics and Probabilistic Methods in Geometry and Analysis

July 2-6, 2012

Program

 

Monday, July 2, 2012

09:30 - 10:00
Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee & Croissants (Room 6245)


Meeting room(s) : 6214

10:00 - 11:00
Frank Ferrari
(Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Introduction to two dimensional quantum gravity
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:30 - 12:30
François David
(CEA Saclay)
2D Quantum Gravity and continuum random surfaces models from a physicist's point of view - I
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 14:40
Brian Clarke
(Stanford University)
The CAT(0) property for the manifold of Riemannian metrics
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
14:50 - 15:30
Song Sun
(Imperial College London)
Space of Kahler metrics and uniqueness of constant scalar curvature Kahler metrics
Abstract
15:40 - 16:10
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
16:10 - 16:50
Yanir A. Rubinstein
(Stanford University )
Geometry of the space of Kahler metrics
Abstract

 

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:30 - 10:30
François David
(CEA Saclay)
2D Quantum Gravity and continuum random surfaces models from a physicist's point of view - II
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 12:30
Bertrand Duplantier
(CEA/Saclay)
Liouville quantum gravity and KPZ - a rigorous perspective
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 14:40
Nikolai Makarov
(Caltech)
Rescaling Ward identities for random normal matrix ensembles
Abstract
14:50 - 15:30
Scott Sheffield
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Imaginary Liouville quantum gravity and its implications
Diapos / Slides
15:40 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
16:00 - 16:40
Bernard Shiffman
(Johns Hopkins University)
Critical points of random sections of holomorphic line bundles
16:50 - 17:30
Boris Hanin
(Northwestern University)
Correlations and nearest neighbor spacings between zeros and critical points of random polynomials
Abstract

 

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:30 - 10:30
Bertrand Duplantier
(CEA/Saclay)
Schramm-Loewner evolution and Liouville quantum gravity
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
10:30 - 11:10
François David
(CEA Saclay)
TBA
11:10 - 11:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:30 - 12:10
Liam McAllister
(Cornell University)
The wasteland of random supergravities
Abstract
12:20 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 14:40
Frank Ferrari
(Université Libre de Bruxelles)
TBA
14:50 - 15:30
Robert Berman
(Chalmers tekniska högskola och Göteborgs universitet)
Kähler-Einstein metrics emerging from statistical mechanics
Abstract
15:40 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
16:00 - 16:40
Semyon Klevtsov
(Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Integration over the space of Bergman metrics
Abstract
16:50 - 17:20
Dmitry Jakobson
(McGill University)
Moment generating function for the Ebin distance on manifolds of metrics with the fixed volume form
Abstract

19:00
Banquet - Restaurant Alep, 199 Jean-Talon Street East, Montréal

 

Thursday, July 5, 2012

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:30 - 10:10
Robert Adler
(Israel Institute of Technology)
Some results in random algebraic topology
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
10:20 - 11:00
Liviu I. Nicolaescu
(University of Notre Dame)
Critical values of random functions
Abstract
11:10 - 11:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:30 - 12:10
Igor Wigman
(School of Mathematics)
Nodal length fluctuations for arithmetic random waves
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
12:20 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 14:40
Nicolas Burq
(Université de Paris-Sud)
Probabilistic Sobolev embeddings
Abstract
14:50 - 15:30
Lior Silberman
(University of British Columbia)
Groups not acting on manifolds
Abstract
15:40 - 16:10
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
16:10 - 17:00
Discussion, Open Problem Session

 

Friday, July 6, 2012

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:30 - 10:10
Raphaël Ponge
(Seoul National University)
Fefferman's program, conformal metrics and Green functions
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
10:20 - 11:00
Linan Chen
(McGill University)
On random measures on R^4 and the KPZ relation
Abstract
11:10 - 11:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:30 - 12:10
Yaiza Canzani
(McGill University)
On the distribution of perturbations of propagated Schrödinger eigenfunctions
Abstract

12:20
Closure of the workshop